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Will Greenwood's wonderful Yak-3 at Imperial War Museum Duxford 2019.

I was unaware of this prior to the weekend, but it turns out that this machine could be considered to be an orginal Yak-3. Though like all the other Yak fighters currently flying in the world today, she was constructed in the 1990s when Yakovlev restarted production on them for the civil market. After a recent inspection of this airframe, it was discovered that this particular example was built utilising one of the original Yak-3 fuselages that were used to create the new jigs. Quite frankly that makes this machine more original than quite a significant amount of supposed "original" restorations around the globe.

Description
Will Greenwood's wonderful Yak-3 at Imperial War Museum Duxford 2019.

I was unaware of this prior to the weekend, but it turns out that this machine could be considered to be an orginal Yak-3. Though like all the other Yak fighters currently flying in the world today, she was constructed in the 1990s when Yakovlev restarted production on them for the civil market. After a recent inspection of this airframe, it was discovered that this particular example was built utilising one of the original Yak-3 fuselages that were used to create the new jigs. Quite frankly that makes this machine more original than quite a significant amount of supposed "original" restorations around the globe.